Lake Chapala is a dedicated site of international importance under the Ramsar International Treaty on Wetlands of UNESCO
Lake Chapala. Photo: Arturo Ortega.
Commemoration of the State Day of Lake Chapala on February 2 went unnoticed by the community’s residents this year. Despite being an official decree since 2014, authorities at both the municipal and state levels of government appear to have abandoned the State Day of Lake Chapala.
Originally, the State Day sought to highlight the importance of the lake for the residents of Lakeside and of Jalisco, as well as constituting another layer of protection and conservation for the Lake.
«It is the obligation of the municipalities, in coordination with the Executive Branch of the entity, to celebrate the State Day of Lake Chapala through activities that enrich the knowledge, awareness of the protection and importance of the place through strategies, mechanism and actions necessary to bring to fruition the festivities of that day,» states the 2014 decree.
The law was presented by the local deputy of the 17th district, Jesús Palos Vaca of the Ecologist Green Party of Mexico (PVEM) and neighbor of Jocotepec. The initiative was published in the Official Newspaper of the State of Jalisco in December 2014.
This State Day was enacted when Lake Chapala and its 114,659 hectares was named as a Ramsar Site on February 2, 2009, joining a list of wetlands of international importance under UNESCO’s Convention on Wetlands.
Translated by MaryAnne Marble
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